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Shahram back in Tehran

Nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri is heading back to Tehran. He went missing last year on a Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia before turning up in the United States.

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Nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri is heading back to Tehran. He went missing last year on a Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia before turning up in the United States. (AFP)

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Shahram Amiri, the Iranian academic who was abducted by US and Saudi forces last year, says he was offered a bribe to appear on TV and announce that he had escaped from Iran. (Reuters/Raheb Homavandi)

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In the latest audio message obtained by Iran's intelligence sources, Amiri insisted that he was offered $10 million to appear on CNN and announce that he had willingly defected to the US. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

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US security forces kidnapped Amiri while he was on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 and took him to America. (Reuters/Raheb Homavandi)

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Iran maintains that he was kidnapped by the CIA but the United States says he came to the US voluntarily and has always been free to go home. (Reuters/Raheb Homavandi)

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In the second video, he contradicted his earlier statements, saying that he was in the US of his own free will to further his education, dismissing all rumors about his defection. (Reuters/Raheb Homavandi)